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Wow! How? For Love & Life

June 4, 2024 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Movie poster: For Love and Life: No Ordinary Campaign. Amazon Prime May 28. Two people embrace, smiling, looking up.

This essay is part of my LinkedIn newsletter series: Wow! How? Health. Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya brought their second daughter home on the same day that he received a devastating diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Brian was told he had six months to live. Seven years later, Brian is still alive. He and Sandra […]

Filed Under: Champions, Networkers Tagged With: ALS, Amy Tenderich, Anthony Carbajal, Brian Wallach, Casey Quinlan, diabetesmine, Elizabeth Jameson, Gilles Frydman, I AM ALS, Jamie Heywood, Katie McCurdy, Maggie Whittum, Michael Graves, Pictal Health, Rebel Health, Sandra Abrevaya, Stephen Heywood, Synapticure, Wow! How? Health, Yoko Sen

Health 2.0: greatest hits of what I missed

October 23, 2013 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

Health 2.0 TV

Thank goodness for conferences which do a good job of capturing and sharing videos. So often I am choosing between sessions, talking with people in the hallway and missing a keynote or demo, or just failing to take notes. Here is a selection of people and talks I missed in person at the recent Health […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: David Kale, health 2.0, Indu Subaiya, Jamie Heywood

Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine

October 14, 2009 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was captured in a short video. ___________________ The Institute of Medicine’s recent […]

Filed Under: key people, Why PM Tagged With: ACOR, Amy Abernethy, Annals Of Internal Medicine, Carolyn Clancy, Chordoma, Clinical Trials, Dartmouth, Emory, Gilles Frydman, Institute Of Medicine, Jamie Heywood, learning health system, Lynn Etheredge, Oncology, Paul Wallace, Transparency, Vanderbilt, Youtube

Participatory Medicine at PdF09: Can we get a do-over?

July 8, 2009 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Detail of a painting by Regina Holliday shows a hand holding a smartphone with the PatientsLikeMe symbol

The poli-tech tribe gathered in New York last week for the Personal Democracy Forum and, as Craig Newmark put it, welcomed “our new nerd overlords.” Esther Dyson, Jamie Heywood, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and I were asked to take on a breakout panel entitled, “From Participatory Politics to Participatory Medicine: The Coming Revolution in Health […]

Filed Under: reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: Chris Schroeder, Craig Newmark, Disaggregation, Esther Dyson, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, Health Data Rights, Healthcentral, Jamie Heywood, Jerry Nadler, Openness, participatory medicine, Patient Data, patientslikeme, Personal Democracy Forum, pew internet project, susannah fox, Ted Eytan, Transparency

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